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The Maryland Renaissance Festival

Growing and thriving over 43 years

Krista Pfunder Boughey

Do you smell the roasting smoked turkey legs? Hear the clanging of steel as jousters meet on the field of battle? Spot courtiers from the 1500s showing up in everyday scenes? Yes, it’s that time of year again. The Renaissance Festival is Chesapeake Country’s unofficial sign that summer is ending.

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– by Krista Pfunder Boughey – 8/22/19

Blue Cat Invasion

Must we eat our way out of this problem?

Bill Lambrecht

Stopping at Bob Evans Seafood in Shady Side, Lou Hyde reports he routinely finds blue catfish in his 240 crab pots in Herring Bay. Some of the horned invaders are so fat that he tears up his pots cutting them loose. Mick Blackistone, fishmonger, worries that they’re eating juvenile crabs.

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– by Bill Lambrecht – 8/15/19

Before You Adopt Us, Read This

Second-hand animals can make first-class pets

Cheryl Simone-Miller

You’ve decided it is time to bring a four-legged family member into your home. Congratulations! It’s a great decision. You probably know whether you are looking for a dog, cat or other companion animal. But you don’t know where to start. Maybe you visit a shelter or a rescue. Maybe you start looking on social media. You see lots of little faces in need. How do you know which is right for you?

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– by Cheryl Simone-Miller – 8/8/19

Diving and Flying Dogs

Canine athletes compete in Flying Disc Dogs Open and Ultimate Air Dock Diving

Krista Pfunder Boughey

The two swimming pools at Hog Dog Productions Farm in Millersville are the scene of intense canine competition. The field was packed at last weekend’s canine dock diving and Frisbee event at the 33-acre farm. Forty-eight dogs leapt into dock diving in the competition pool and 65 pups into Frisbee competition.

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– by Krista Pfunder Boughey – 8/8/19

Pet Tales 2019

Stories to warm your heart and tickle your funny bone

Meet Bay Weekly Delivery Dogs Amber and Mr. Kimble Two new dogs joined the Bay Weekly family last summer, Amber and Mr. Kimble. They both came to live with drivers Jim Lyles and Peggy Traband in Deale from Collie Rescue in North Carolina.

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– by – 8/8/19

Spreading a Little HOPE

Local nonprofit lifts spirits while providing much-needed help

Brad Dress

Last September, Michelle Dashiells needed a little hope. She had recently divorced her husband, leaving her a single mother raising two children, a 13-year-old boy with special needs and a six-year-old girl. The 41-year-old mother also struggled with a bone-degenerative disease — she has almost no cartilage in her bones and can’t lift things — as well as arbitrary seizures and a neurological disorder that causes memory loss.

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– by Brad Dress – 8/1/19

Captain Grace O’Malley, Pirate Queen of Ireland

Woman of many faces hops from one century to the next, bringing to life amazing women of history

Mary Ann Jung

Was that Amelia Earhart you bumped into at the grocery store? Julia Child, Clara Barton, or even Sally Ride at the mall? You are not seeing things. I change into and out of corsets, wigs, and hoop skirts several times each day to hop from one century to the next for my fascinating job. I’m Mary Ann Jung, an award-winning actress and Smithsonian scholar who’s lucky to make a wonderful living performing shows about amazing women in history.

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– by Mary Ann Jung – 7/11/19

Restoring a Landmark

After more than a century in the water, keeping Thomas Point alive is no easy task

Brad Dress

As Thomas Point Shoal Lighthouse loomed ever closer in the brackish waters of Chesapeake Bay, John Potvin placed one leg on the edge of Audacious, a pristine white deadrise. The fishing boat’s engine roared and sputtered as it neared the historic landmark: a towering, red-and-white circular house squating on crisscrossed metal beams.

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– by Brad Dress – 7/3/19

I Do.

We asked, and you delivered, with great nuptial photos and wedding day memories.

Nick and Kellie Brown Married September 9, 2017, at Holy Family Church, Davidsonville TThey began their new life in a lovely home in Edgewater with their beautiful border collie Noah. They continued building their story with a new little baby girl, Lucie.

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– by – 6/20/19

Here's Looking at You, Dad

Carl Harris Jr. and Elle Harris When I gave birth to Elle three years ago, the first thing I said when the doctor gave her to me was “OMG! She looks just like him.” These two are inseparable. They are twins who share priceless, unconditional love for each other. –Leslie Parker

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– by – 6/13/19